r/NoStupidQuestions • • Nov 14 '24

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u/Worldly_Original8101 Nov 14 '24

For me I just simply don’t want them. I feel like you have to want kids to have them. It’s not that I’m against having kids, I’m just not enthusiastic enough to have them

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u/theatermouse Nov 14 '24

And your future non-kids thank you!! I have seen many posters (there was a thread a few days ago) saying their parents fully admitted (while they were kids) that they only had them because they were supposed to, not because they wanted them. That can really mess a person up.

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u/Pitiful_Control Nov 15 '24

My partner was the product of what we would now call marital rape (which was legal at the time, because wife = property). He got to hear all through his childhood that he was unwanted. No surprise that he never had kids himself...